Music  Have the musicians of this city gone video mad or is that just us? The last week has seen a surge of amazing looking promotional clips cooked up by Portland artists and their visually minded friends. And, no surprise, we've featured a bunch of them here. I mean, we wouldn't bother if they weren't great to look at and featured great songs, right? Take this latest example from singer...   More

Music  Now that you're done watching the Red Fang video Casey posted about mere moments ago - take a little gander at this gorgeous clip for a new - repeat NEW - Radiation City track. Directed by Andrew Sloan, the video captures a bit of the recording process for the song, but, m...   More

News For recreational users, the only criterion for picking a strain of cannabis is the character of the high they want to get.  But for the medical user, the choice of strain can be vitally importa   More

Album Reviews [7.5% ABV, 100% ROCK] The arrival of new music by Wow and Flutter is exciting not only for the aural treats on the new Double Deuce EP but also for how the band is releasing it: as a download access   More

Music  The monthly DJ nights known as Bubblin' have been some of the most can't miss events in the electronic/dance music calendar for a couple of years now. To date, they have brought in folks like global bass maniac Dre Skull, UK Funky pioneer    More

Music  If you hear any chatter about the new Wow & Flutter EP Double Deuce, it will likely be about the admittedly cool method with which the band is distributing it: as a download, which is only accessible via a code found in bottles of a new Imperial Ale from Alameda Brewing. But let's not forget that new Wow & Flutter mus...   More

Music Stories [METAL] Spectral Tombs don’t look much like they enjoy being interviewed.  Though three-fourths of the black-metal band—bassist-vocalist Chris Carter, guitarist-vocalist John Edwards an   More

Music  Before I watched this video, I thought a bit about how I would visually represent this song. Sadly, all I could come up with was a weird kind of Austin Powers-esque psychedelic treatment, to match up with the groovy swing of the song.What Unknown Mortal Orchestra and directors Jordan Blady and Ryan Knowles came up with though was a David Lynch/Tim Burton style freak show of floating h...   More

Music Now that renowned experimentalist Jason Urick is living in Portland, it makes perfect sense that he has connected with Ashby Lee Collinson, one of the creative minds behind the cable access show Experimental Half Hour and who is working with modular synth wizard Pulse Emitter on ...   More

Music  The Internet savvy among you might have already seen this news on Facebook—but even then, this is an announcement that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The folks behind the monthly dance party Supernature are celebrating a third year of amazing events, and are doing so with a huge—repeat HUGE—two-day event...   More